1st Edition
Community Life for the Mentally Ill An Alternative to Institutional Care
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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"Community Life for the Mentally Ill" presents a social innovative experiment aimed at providing new and more participating social positions in American society for mental patients. It presents the events that occurred when a courageous group of former chronic mental patients abruptly left a hospital and established their own autonomous sub-society in a large, metropolitan area.In order to... Read more
The Social Innovative Experiment; 1: Overview of the Experiment; 1: Social Status and Mental Illness; 3: Planning and Implementing the Project; Evolution of an Autonomous Society in the Community; 4: The Era of Maximum Professional Supervision; 5: A Governing Body Emerges; 6: The Attempt at Self-Government; 7: Autonomy at Last; Interchange With the Surrounding Community; 129: The Socioeconomic Environment of the Lodge; 9: Social Exchange With the Community; 10: Relations With the University; 11: Medical Care for the Members; Comparison of the Community Environments; 12: The Community Adjustment of Lodge Members; 13: The Effect of Volunteering and Chronicity on Community Adjustment; 14: Mthe Relationship Between the Social Situation and Treatment Criteria; 15: Group Processes in the Hospital and Community Social Subsystems; Implications for Innovative Research With the Mentally Ill and Other Marginal Groups; 16: Staff and Patient Views of Innovative Hospital and Community Treatment Programs; 17: Operating Principles for Community Treatment Subsystems; 18: A Recurrent Social Problem: Changing the Social Status of Marginal Man
Biography
George W. Fairweather, David H. Sanders, David L. Cressler, Hugo Maynard
